A Feast for Crows: A Song of Fire and Ice, Book 4

After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce, in this fourth novel of the cycle that inspired the wildly popular HBO television series Game of Thrones. Or so it appears; with the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King's Landing. Robb Stark's demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the Iron Throne still exist; the war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors—outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters—start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils. A Song of Ice and Fire is a masterful cycle of novels by multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner George R.R. Martin, depicting an entire world of magic and chivalry where seasons can last for a lifetime, and winter is rapidly approaching.

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